#Apeopleshistoryoftheunitedstates is a brief overview of what you should have learned in high school. #MythAmerica is what you should have learned your senior year. #OrdinaryMen is a cautionary example of what happens when citizens accept dogmatism & identity privilege over education & sympathy. 📚💙

Remember, it is the victors that write propaganda as history. I believe we in the U.S. have been living in a contrived illusion for a very long time. #mythamerica

Being born in suburbia post-Brown v Board & CRA64/VRA65 skewed my views about how vulnerable multiracial democracy really was. Democracy and egalitarianism were the USA 'brand.' Anyone that would want to unwind that were cartoonishly incompetent yokels dressed as cheap Halloween ghosts. #MythAmerica

Map of the Caribbean showing the pre-Columbian boundaries of the Taino nation.

Today's an ideal day to dispel stubborn colonial myths. First on the chopping block: "discovery" of a "new world".

𝗨𝗻𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗯𝘂𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗠𝘆𝘁𝗵𝘀: 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀' 𝗗𝗮𝘆
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📸: Smithsonian

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Reading the book Myth America edited by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer on a sunny morning outside.

Visiting family in Atlanta means relaxing on the porch with a new pickup from the local bookstore. @kevinmkruse.bsky.social #MythAmerica #virginiahighlandbooks